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Pakistan

Pakistan

Law enforcement services in Pakistan are provided by a combination of federal and provincial police forces. Together these forces are responsible for:

Preventing, detecting and investigating crime;

Protecting life, property and freedom;

Collecting and sharing criminal intelligence;

Locating and bringing offenders to justice;

Preserving public peace;

Protecting women and children.

Provincial policing

Basic law and order action is carried out by the police of the four provincial governments:

Punjab Police;

Sindh Police;

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police;

Balochistan Police.

Together the four provincial police forces are made up of more than 325,000 officers.

Federal policing

The Ministry of Interior is responsible for national security.

Mandate:

Command the federal police organizations;

Command the civil armed forces;

Assist and support provincial governments.

Federal police organizations:

Ministry of Interior:

Federal Investigation Agency (FIA);

Pakistan Rangers;

Frontier Corps;

Pakistan Coast Guard;

National Police Bureau;

National Police Academy;

National Police Management Board.

Ministry of Communications:

National Highways and Motorways Police.

Ministry of Narcotics Control:

Anti-Narcotics Force.

Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)

The FIA is headquartered in Islamabad with regional units across the country. With a strength of 3,500 officers, its mandate is to investigate and prosecute offences relating to:

Corruption;

Organized crime and terrorism;

Immigration, trafficking in human beings and smuggling;

Money laundering;

Financial, high-tech and white collar crime;

Intellectual property rights.

INTERPOL Islamabad

The INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Pakistan is part of the FIA’s International Cooperation Branch, the exclusive platform for all Pakistan investigations requiring international outreach.

Headed by the FIA Director General, INTERPOL Islamabad’s day-to-day work is supervised by an NCB Director. Staffed by of 15 officials, INTERPOL Islamabad also has four sub-bureaus located at each of the four FIA provincial headquarters.

LYON, France – On behalf of the international law enforcement community, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has congratulated India’s Kailash Satyarthi&nbsp; and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai after they jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to improve the rights of children.
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Child education activist Malala Yousafzai, aged 17, w...

MINSK, Belarus - INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has condemned in the strongest terms bomb attacks on a paramilitary force academy in north-west Pakistan which killed 80 people. The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden.Speaking from Minsk where he is meeting with senior Interior Ministry offi...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – The Abu Dhabi&nbsp;police buildings have been assessed as meeting the highest international security standards, according to an INTERPOL audit report which INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble handed over to the UAE’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at a meeting on Monday.A...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan has given special recognition to the world's largest police organization after conferring the Hilal-e Pakistan (Crescent of Pakistan) award to INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble on the occasion of Pakistan's National Day.Accepting one of Pakistan's highest civilian awards as 'a great hon...

LYON, France – INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has condemned as 'contemptible and cowardly' the suspected suicide car bomb attack on Thursday against the anti-terrorist police headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan, which left at least 20 dead and 100 injured. Gunmen are reported to have opened fire on a security checkpoint to clear the way for the...

LYON, France – Missing Pakistani journalist Talat Hussain Syed has been identified and located in Israel, following close co-operation between INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau (NCB) Jerusalem, its General Secretariat Headquarters in Lyon, France and the National Central Bureau in Islamabad, less than 24 hours after INTERPOL issued an international missi...

LYON, France – INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau&nbsp;(NCB) in Islamabad, Pakistan, has issued a global alert for 13 individuals wanted by police authorities in Pakistan in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Mumbai terror attacks&nbsp;of November 2008.The alert asks INTERPOL member countries to assist in locating the fugitives and immedia...